This may have been a fuel thing. The vehicle must have extraordinarily strong thrusters if they allowed them to travel along a blackhole, meaning that leaving the surface of a planet should be no issue. However, the number of times they can do this may be limited due to fuel storage. So in this case, rather than wasting fuel in the ship itself to leave planet earth, they caged the ship in temporarily and used a practice easily done via old conventional technologies.
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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
This may have been a fuel thing. The vehicle must have extraordinarily strong thrusters if they allowed them to travel along a blackhole, meaning that leaving the surface of a planet should be no issue. However, the number of times they can do this may be limited due to fuel storage. So in this case, rather than wasting fuel in the ship itself to leave planet earth, they caged the ship in temporarily and used a practice easily done via old conventional technologies. | ||
Godwrath
Spain10091 Posts
On November 23 2014 23:35 SKC wrote: For me the weirdest thing was how easily they could move in and out of earth-like planets. They used a multi staged rocket to leave earth, similar to today's technology, and then a simple small ranger was enough to leave planets with atmosphere and higher gravity than earth. Fuel. You want to use as much as you can from external sources before usign the ranger's fuel. | ||
sths
Australia192 Posts
"Lol silly great grand pa, everybody knows the other side of a black hole is a white hole. Wtf is this 5th dimension bullshit." | ||
B.I.G.
3251 Posts
I also think it's great that (hopefully) this movie sparks the interest of the people for the (imo) so amazingly interesting stuff scientists keep finding out about our lil' ol' universe every day. | ||
Jetaap
France4814 Posts
On March 21 2015 23:06 B.I.G. wrote: Ok very late reply, just saw the movie only now but just wanted to drop in here and say it's amazing. Only once every few years a movie comes by that completely sucks me in and leaves me pondering for hours about what it all meant afterwards. Great job and I'm becoming a huge fan of McConaughey and Nolan. I also think it's great that (hopefully) this movie sparks the interest of the people for the (imo) so amazingly interesting stuff scientists keep finding out about our lil' ol' universe every day. I also watched it a couple of days ago, and was really pleasantly surprised (i hated gravity so i did not really know what to expect). There are so few legitimately good sci fi movies, and it was one of them | ||
Broetchenholer
Germany1821 Posts
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sths
Australia192 Posts
On March 22 2015 09:44 Broetchenholer wrote: Just saw Focus and was somewhat entertained, although the plot was quite easy to guess. Character development wasn't its best quality as well, so, for once i am on a page with the imdb rating. If we could just reduce stuff like Fury to the same rating, i would be a happy movie watcher. God damn it, I'm so sick of people confusing Matthew McConaughey and Will Smith. | ||
Alcathous
Netherlands219 Posts
Yeah, my brain says I should nit pick about plot holes and over-think some of the stuff in the movie. I have seen some false complaints about the science. Pretty sure that those that do seem to hold up are covered somehow by Kip Thorne, so what is the point of such an endeavor anyway? In the end this movie is touching. I don't know why I would want to take out a hammer and crush something in the rare occasion it is able to move me, as not many things are. Never thought I'd every cry because of a movie. Doubt it will happen again. | ||
rei
United States3593 Posts
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Diavlo
Belgium2915 Posts
On April 29 2015 10:31 rei wrote: how come he didn't get spaghettified when he's inside the blackhole? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/11/neil-degrasse-tyson-breaks-down-interstellar-black-holes-time-dilations-and-massive-waves.html This is a good summary of the science behind Interstellar and the liberties they took with physics to tell the story. You could say they could have made things simpler but that's Nolan for you, making things confusing by trying really hard to explain them is like his hobby. Inception is 10 times more complicated than it should have been but it allowed people to praise Nolan for making up smart complicated movies. I loved most of his movies but I really think he tries too much to be clever and each of his films seem to be more convoluted than the last (except for the batman trilogy of course). | ||
Alcathous
Netherlands219 Posts
On April 29 2015 10:31 rei wrote: how come he didn't get spaghettified when he's inside the blackhole? You get spaghettified if the gravitational gradient is really big. Your head and feet will be in a gravitational field of different strengths. Think factor 100,000 in difference. So the force and acceleration on them will be different. This is true for a small black hole. You can make a really big one and then even beyond the event horizon, gravity is mild; low number of G's and barely any change in Gs for many kilometers. For a 'normal' black hole, G forces will be huge near the EH and just getting a bit more closer and it will increase it with a many multiples. It needs to go to infinity really quickly. Of course you need to get really close to the singularity and the EH will be tiny. It would be very easy to avoid a normal black hole. Even when you are in orbit around it, the odds that you actually orbit it through the EH are miniscule, as you might learn if you play KSP. Not sure how three habitable planets came to orbit a SMBH as those are at the center of galactic cores, where habitable planets are likely an impossibility. But then again, curing the blight is going to be 1000x simpler than building a wormhole. And the eagles could have brought Frodo to mount doom. | ||
WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On April 30 2015 03:17 Alcathous wrote: But then again, curing the blight is going to be 1000x simpler than building a wormhole. And the eagles could have brought Frodo to mount doom. Easier for a human, maybe. Probably not for a 5th dimensional being that can't even separate singular moments in time. That's why everything that occurs in a specific moment in time is done by Cooper. It's all a stable time loop as well, meaning humanity migrating very much predicated advancements that allowed humans to become 5th dimensional and create wormholes and manipulate time/space at all. | ||
Alcathous
Netherlands219 Posts
But what I mean is that even in the current time-line, if a blight threatens to destroy civilization on earth, it is much easier to save civilization by curing the blight than by going interstellar. Pretty funny that a physicist needs a life science problem, that is a priori unsolvable, to lead into all the physics problems like 'solving gravity'. | ||
Erasme
Bahamas15893 Posts
On April 29 2015 10:31 rei wrote: how come he didn't get spaghettified when he's inside the blackhole? why arent they spaghettified on the first planet ? why didnt he die of old age before getting spaghettified before reaching the blackhole why is anne hattaway even in the movie ? how couldnt they see the immenses waves when they were landing ? how did his daughter figure out that his father was the ghost all along without new clues ? Good movie, too bad they didnt show the sky when they were on the water planet | ||
WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On April 30 2015 03:58 Alcathous wrote: In the end they conclude humans made the tessaract, not aliens. But what I mean is that even in the current time-line, if a blight threatens to destroy civilization on earth, it is much easier to save civilization by curing the blight than by going interstellar. Pretty funny that a physicist needs a life science problem, that is a priori unsolvable, to lead into all the physics problems like 'solving gravity'. It's kind of not. I mean, we have spacecraft that can get to Saturn already. We also have a wheat blight that's happening right now that hasn't been solved. Our crops are also becoming less and less genetically diverse as the decades progress, which makes crop diseases even worse. | ||
darthfoley
United States7999 Posts
Space is so beautiful and so is the essence of humanity (love); I've never seen a movie mix the two in such a smooth way. I know there are flaws but the emotional resonance I felt from the movie made up for it. Murph was by far my favorite character and she gave me so many feels. Tearful feels. | ||
Jockmcplop
United Kingdom8727 Posts
On June 21 2015 05:27 darthfoley wrote: Just watched this for the first time yesterday... my emotional state is all over the map and i'm not sure what my takeaway is, other than I was completely blown away and it hit such a deep emotional nerve with me. Space is so beautiful and so is the essence of humanity (love); I've never seen a movie mix the two in such a smooth way. I know there are flaws but the emotional resonance I felt from the movie made up for it. Murph was by far my favorite character and she gave me so many feels. Tearful feels. Oh that scene where he's watching the messages T_T Man tears | ||
catplanetcatplanet
3817 Posts
i just watched it again on a tiny airplane screen and legitimately teared up a few times, it really was a love story after all still my favorite would still have to be the docking scene... amazing | ||
Alcathous
Netherlands219 Posts
On April 30 2015 04:12 Erasme wrote: why arent they spaghettified on the first planet ? A gravitation gradient that is too steep will spaghettify. The gravitational pull on your legs, or whatever is going in first, is going to be several magnitudes larger than that on your head. A supermassive blackhole has a gradient of about 0 for very large distances. Let alone the length of a person. In that context, think of gravity as moving straight ahead to very gently curved space-time. It is the same thing as us rotating around the center of our milky way. Every different from your nose moving 'down' with near infinite acceleration, while your face keeps moving straight forward until that point where it occupies the same space as your nose once did, meeting the same fate.. why didnt he die of old age before getting spaghettified before reaching the blackhole You need to age before you can die of old age. Not a lot of time passed in their FoR. how couldnt they see the immenses waves when they were landing ? I don't know if it is so easy to resolve mile high distances when in orbit. A better objection would be; why didn't they know a water planet around a supermassive black hole would have this problem? Or better yet; why wasn't the planet tidally locked in the first place? Because it would reach that equilibrium rather quickly in stellar timescales. how did his daughter figure out that his father was the ghost all along without new clues ? Love? Or bias. She was looking for an answer to the problem of gravity. Since childhood she already wrote down the messages that came in. When it was morse code on the watch that her father gave her, I guess movie-wise this leap can be made. Why bash a movie that got most scenes right and one or more wrong when most movies get all scenes wrong (Fast and the furious, Transformers, all Marvel movies, Jurassic World?) Good movie, too bad they didnt show the sky when they were on the water planet[/QUOTE] | ||
darthfoley
United States7999 Posts
Picked up on the subtle cue when Coop is driving off towards NASA after his tearful goodbye to Murph, and he lifts the blanket up hoping to see Murph hiding again. This film made me a big fan of McConaughey | ||
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